mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wooden panel of woman: dark hair with rows of small curls across forehead, skin dark pink/cream, lips dark pink, gold ball earrings on small hoops, probable gold necklace; surface worn at lower part, wearing probable red chiton with darker haematon. Portrait split longitudinally into three main sections with break in centre of neck area, possilby from digging tool; left edge (as viewed) chipped and holed, linen fragments adhering to back. (Mark: BC). From Hawara cemetery. Sample taken by C. Cartwright, British Museum, 1995, unidentifiable.

- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Graeco-Roman Period

100 to 200

LDUCE-UC38061

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology